Overview
As a Partner Principal Architect, you drive trusted advisory relationships with priority GSIs in EMEA, shaping multi-year technology bets around Google Cloud. You lead executive discussions with C-level and practice leads, promoting Google Cloud at events and with partners to unlock enterprise-grade solutions. You will define integration strategies and enterprise architectures for complex GSI mega-agreements, co-create scalable assets, and act as the technical gatekeeper for Gemini Enterprise AI funding. Expect significant travel to customer sites and conferences to advance joint plans.
Responsibilities
- Build and manage advisory relationships with priority GSIs in EMEA, engaging their CTOs, lead architects, and practice leads
- Promote Google Cloud with partners at conferences and online, shaping multi-year technology bets
- Provide domain expertise on public cloud and enterprise technology; recommend integration strategies, platforms, and application infrastructure for complete solutions
- Manage the enterprise architecture relationship with GSI partners, collaborating with Google Cloud Platform CEs, PAs, product management, and technical teams to create replicable assets
- Co-author massive, enterprise-grade assets and oversee technical capability and multi-year bets for the GSI program
- Serve as the technical gatekeeper for Gemini Enterprise AI funding
- Travel to customer sites, conferences, and events as required (~50%)
Key requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
- 10 years of experience as an enterprise architect or in a customer-facing role
- Experience in cloud market insights and cloud computing across applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, or data
- Experience engaging with and presenting to technical stakeholders and executive leaders
- Experience with modern AI paradigms, generative AI, and data technologies, including reviewing technical solutions
- Executive-level communication
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Influence and negotiation with partners and stakeholders
- Cloud computing across applications, infrastructure, storage, platforms, data
- Enterprise architecture practices, hybrid cloud deployments, and on-prem-to-cloud migrations
- Experience with AI paradigms, generative AI, and data technologies
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